Seven actions towards a mentally healthy organisation

What's the issue?

To the individual mental illness can be isolating, exhausting and sometimes deadly. But it also takes its toll more broadly on organisations and businesses across the globe. Whether it’s a small business or a multi-national FTSE 100 company, tackling mental illness head on is a necessity in today’s world.

From an investors' or owners' perspective, policies that promote mental health are good not only for the people who work for the organisation but also for its financial performance.

What can be done?

This guide has been produced to help individuals – no matter where they sit in an organisation – to develop and build the case for tackling mental illness in their workplace.

All of us can have a positive impact on the mental health of those in our company or business.

All the individuals involved have experience in treating, investigating or otherwise combating mental ill-health and its impacts. By working together their hope is to equip others with the tools and resources to start taking action.

The information in the guide, compiled in late 2015 and early 2016, is the result of a substantial combination of outreach to organisations, online research, and personal expertise of the authors. However, it is by no means comprehensive and will hopefully be developed and built upon.